Combos not rendering?

[pm0u]

I have a keymap that is using some helper macros from https://github.com/urob/zmk-helpers

Examples here: https://github.com/pm0u/zmk-lily58/blob/main/config/combos.dtsi

These don't seem to get rendered when using the keymap drawer: https://keymap-drawer.streamlit.app/?zmk_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpm0u%2Fzmk-lily58%2Fblob%2Fmain%2Fconfig%2Flily58.keymap

I understand that the ones near the bottom might not be able to be resolved completely due to the weird behavior/tap dance hack - but I would have expected the first couple of fairly standard combos to work out properly (they did when defined directly in the keymap file).

This is not my usual environment so its entirely possible that there's some syntax error that is meaning this doesn't work 😅

Thanks for the great tool!

Edit

Found this issue here: #101

I tried adding the recommended config, but still am having no luck

[pm0u]

Got it, i guess. It now works in the GH action... my best understanding of the issue here is that this needs more of an actual build environment than my local provides to resolve all of this (west/zephyr/zmk... etc)

[caksoylar]

The problem is that the web app doesn't fetch the zmk-helpers module, whereas the build workflow does when you use this arg. I have been meaning to add that functionality to the web app but haven't found the time yet.

Similarly for a local run, you have the have the zmk-helpers checked out locally and then point to its location in https://github.com/pm0u/zmk-lily58/blob/main/keymap_drawer.config.yaml#L40.

[pm0u]

ah nice - can that point to a relative directory outside of the current one?

eg -

.
└── dir/
    ├── zmk-config
    └── zmk-helpers

[pm0u]

it seems so! excellent.

I guess I'll just have to maintain separate configs...

[caksoylar]

Sure, you can use .. or an absolute path. Note that unfortunately the relative paths are interpreted relative to your current working directory (where you issue the command), not the config file (another thing to fix at some point).

[pm0u]

didn't love the idea of maintaining 2x configs so I put a symlink in the config root dir and gitignored it. seems to work - now I can just leave that include line as is and it will work in CI and local. Thanks for all the help and for the great tool!

# root dir of the repository -> root dir of the helper repository
ln -s ../urob-zmk-helpers zmk-helpers
echo 'zmk-helpers' >> .gitignore

Edit: Had to have it all "line up" with the directory that the config points to - to keep the include line as - "zmk-helpers/include" this meant that the helpers symlink had to be sibling to the keymap drawer config file.